Salvia Plants

Salvia splendens, a.k.a. Scarlet Sage, is a widely grown annual ornamental plant with beautiful scarlet flowers. Salvia Plants' flowers grow thick and in various colors like white, purple, lavender, blue, pink, salmon, and bicolor. When these are planted in your garden, Humming Birds will be your daily visitors.

Maintenance of Salvia Plants

Salvia Plants are outstanding when planted in beds, borders, containers, patios, and edges with their ability to attract butterflies. They are very well suited for cottage gardens for their beauty. Easy to grow, they range from annual to perennial shrub-like blossom plants and grow in humus-rich, moist, well-drained soil with sunlight.

The Salvia Plants are usually grown in bunches that display eye-catching, tube-like bright flowers rising from the dark green aromatic foliage thick with spikes. Salvia requires very little maintenance with deadheading, and they are mostly pest and disease-free. It likes to get balanced, slow-release fertilizers in spring.

Care for Salvia Plants

Growing from seeds at first, but self-propagating during the flowering, you see small seedlings anywhere in your garden. For maintaining your garden neat and beautiful, pruning can be done in flowering seasons. It is commonly seen that aged Salvia Plants tend to grow woody stems, and it is advisable to cut them off. Cut all those plants that undergo any kind of damage.

At NurseryLive, you will find a range of Salvia Plants annual varieties that prefer warm seasons, while the perennial ones are blooming year-round only if they are not killed by frost. They generally reach a height between 2-4 feet, but their fast growth promises you the dream garden faster. Admired for its property of tolerance in dry soil, mulching is appreciated for retaining moisture and reducing weed growth.
You can plant them in a round plastic black pot of 15 cm (6 in) in size, which can later be repotted after the Salvia Plants grow high.